Multiple sources confirmed to Crosscut reporter David Kroman that the paper would run its final print edition on Wednesday, Feb. 27. The decision to close the paper reportedly comes at the end of the fiscal year for Sound Publishing, which owns Seattle Weekly and publishes 48 other papers around the region.

That announcement came a few weeks after The Stranger announced they would be publishing every two weeks; Seattle Weekly's shuttering technically leaves Seattle without a traditional alt-weekly paper. (Though Real Change still exists as a weekly paper in Seattle.)

Alt-weeklies in cities across the country have also seen hard times recently. The past few years have seen many local papers -- including the Baltimore City Paper, Knoxville Mercury, LA Weekly, and the Village Voice -- announced they would close.

Sound Publishing issued a statement to Kroman indicating that Seattle Weekly would be a "web only" publication, and that the other operations of Sound Publishing would not change.

They're not making this easy. I'm now trying to figure out what this means in terms of layoffs. Will again update if they tell me.